Photo Management: Metadata

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4/6/2016

Want to quickly find all the photos you took a year ago today? Or in a certain place? Or with a specific set of camera and lens settings? Thanks to metadata, searches like these are easy.

Metadata may not be glamorous, but it's a priceless tool for managing and organizing photos. Your camera records metadata with every shot: the date, time, camera and lens settings, and much more. You can also add metadata using programs like Adobe Lightroom.

In this course, photographer, author, and educator Tim Grey demystifies metadata, describing what it is and showing how it's an essential part of photo management, from categorizing photos to creating fun searches, such as "show me all the photos I took a year ago today."

Topics include:

Viewing image metadata

Creating and using metadata presets in Lightroom

Importing metadata from the camera

Adding metadata to batches of images

Correcting metadata for capture time

Getting location information with auto GPS

Mapping locations manually

Resolving and avoiding metadata conflicts

Backing up metadata

Locating your images with a simple metadata search

Skill Level Intermediate

1h 25m

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- Hi there. I'm Tim Grey.And in this course we're going to talkabout metadata in the context of photography.If you are at all familiar with the concept of metadataas it relates to your photographic workflow.You might not consider it the most exciting topicin the world but I assure you.It is a critically important topicwhen it comes to organizing your photos.In short, if you ever want to find a given photoat any given time, you're going to need metadatain most cases to track it down.Metadata can also be tremendously valuable when it comesto reminding yourself about particulardetails related to a photo.

We're going to explore where metadata comes from.The metadata that your camera creates for you automatically,the metadata that you can add to your images,after the capture in post processing.In this case, I'm going to be using Adobe Lightroom.Because that's the softwareI use for managing my own photos.But the same concepts that we'll be talkingabout also relate to a wide variety ofother software applications for managing your photos.I think you'll find that exploring metadata.Understanding metadata a little bit better willenable you to think more about your own workflowfor organizing your photos.

And will help make sure that that workflowis more efficient and more useful in your photography.So join me as we explorethe world of metadata in photography.